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Sendmail, Inc.

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Sendmail, Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.
IndustryEmail Management
Founded1998; 26 years ago (1998)
Headquarters
Emeryville, California
Key people
Glen D. Vondrick (President & CEO)
Gregory Shapiro (VP, Cloud Enablement) & CTO
ParentProofpoint, Inc. Edit this on Wikidata
WebsiteSendmail, Inc.

Sendmail, Inc. is an email management business.

The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA[1] with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

History

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The company was founded in 1999 by Eric Allman in Emeryville, CA. Eric also created sendmail, an open source mail transfer agent while he was a student and a staff member at the University of California, Berkeley. It is the commercial version of the open source version of sendmail.[2]

Managing Email

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In 2005, Sendmail released the Sentrion email infrastructure platform to address the need for full-content message inspection, enabling policy-based delivery[clarification needed] of all human and machine-generated email.[3]

Hybrid Cloud

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In 2012, Sendmail partnered with Mimecast[4] to provide hybrid-cloud email security, archiving and continuity as some predicted that 2013 would see more organizations implementing hybrid cloud computing strategies[5] to reduce cost and complexity of their messaging infrastructure.

Machine-Generated Email

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In 2012, Sendmail released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control) amid growing security, compliance and other concerns posed by the growth of application-generated email[6] and migration of email to the cloud.[7]

Acquired by Proofpoint

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In 2013, Sendmail was acquired by security-as-a-service company Proofpoint, Inc.[8]

Timeline

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1998
Released Switch, the commercial MTA
2000
Released Sendmail Milter API
2001
Released Mailstream Manager for email security and compliant policy management
2003
Released Mailcenter for the enterprise[9]
2005
Shipped first Sentrion™ appliance[10]
2006
Celebrated 25th anniversary of internet email (MTA)[11]
2007
Shipped Sentrion MP ‘inbound & outbound’ Appliance
2008
Released Sentrion MPV and Sentrion™ MPQ
2009
Released Sentrion Cloud Services (SaaS)[12]
2010
Opened Sentrion App Store (www.SentrionAppStore.com)[13]
2011
Sendmail teams with Harris and BMC on trusted enterprise cloud[14]
2011
Released Sentrion Critical Customer Communications Enterprise Application Suite
2012
Released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control)[15]
2013
Acquired by Proofpoint, Inc.

References

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  1. ^ Rich's High-tech Business Guide to Silicon Valley and Northern California. Rich's Business Directories, Incorporated. 2003.
  2. ^ Costales, Bryan; Assmann, Claus; Jansen, George; Shapiro, Gregory Neil (2007-10-26). sendmail: Build and Administer sendmail. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-0-596-55534-4.
  3. ^ Sendmail guards e-mail, Network World Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Mimecast and Sendmail announce enterprise email collaboration, CloudPro
  5. ^ 2013: Year of the hybrid cloud, Network World
  6. ^ Automated Emails: Are You Launching a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Own Company?, ReadWriteWeb
  7. ^ Email in the Cloud: Avoid the Pitfalls, Windows IT Pro
  8. ^ "Proofpoint, Inc. Acquires Sendmail, Inc". October 1, 2013. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  9. ^ Sendmail Launches Mailcenter for the Enterprise Archived 2013-02-15 at archive.today
  10. ^ Sendmail Inc.'s Sentrion appliance: All-in-one e-mail security, GCN Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Your mail server sucks!, InfoWorld
  12. ^ Sendmail introduces protection for the cloud, IT Examiner Archived 2013-02-16 at archive.today
  13. ^ Sendmail launches 'app store' for enterprise, TechWorld
  14. ^ Harris, Sendmail and BMC team up on Trusted Enterprise Cloud, ZDNet
  15. ^ Sendmail Launches 'Rogue Email Application Control' Appliance, SecurityWeek